Also I would try for myself to use Cinnamon DE since I don't like KDE (I have used KDE on SteamOS on steamdeck, SteamOS is not really good for programming so I replaced with Linux Mint 22)
@@averdadeeumaso4003 I tried Cinnamon couldn't get the "spin" I found to boot and installing it from the repos I couldn't load the DE. I prefer Cinnamon also. I imagine with this wave of interest we'll see a lot move in the coming days.
Thanks for the video! An excellent history review, with all facts correct and IMHO all of the important details mentioned - I appreciate that very much 👍 12:30 OM is clang, don’t you say! One reason more for me to like OM, I'm very comfortable with building with clang - it's a default system compiler on FreeBSD for quite some time now. 28:07 Great that you mentioned dnf5, I was just about to ask about it: I saw it in the repo, are there any special steps to take when installing (or?) upgrading default dnf4 to 5? Thanks one more time, very well done video - one of the best for now, kudos!
I really appreciate your comment. Especially as I worked the entire week to make it. Being testing, streaming, talking to developers, collecting facts, reporting bugs. I think this 35-minute video is the longest ever that I have created, in terms of time investment. As for DNF5, just wait for ROCK 6 to be released and then do your ROME update. As I understand it - OM devs are timing DNF5 to be released at the same time on both.
I believe that you are correct. I also don’t recollect seeing people talking about it in years. Mainstream talk gets more clicks, I guess? I mean Arch is cool, but I can inject content diversity into this channel 🫡
Yep, you are correct. I have already discussed this with OpenMandriva developers and they agree that it is worth improving the UI for the next new user.
I am here , after the Lunduke video as well. Having a hell of a time with the install , but hey that's the fun part. Just so you know my T480s had the same crashes as you did , so I don't think the bug is that rare. I have an older Ideapad 10th gen Intel and nVidia and it is a crash-fest. Tried to put it on a HP from 2020 with 10th gen Intel /Intel gpu and it was a mess also. Watched you video and grabbed my T480s and other than the KDE crashes during install , so far so good. I am a huge KDE fan , and my daily has been Fedora KDE spin , but would love to move to OMLx as a daily purely to support a politics and BS free distro.(edit for spelling)
I have T480 and T580 and I am currently considering which one to use as my OpenMandriva daily driver as I am moving from Arch to OM now to properly test it on my laptop, as I have two kinda primary computers: one desktop and one laptop (T480 with Arch at the moment). So a long-run test of at least half a year should make for a good verdict on how good ROME really is and how much I can help OM team to make it even better. Thanks for watching, this means a lot to me!
Steam installs on one click from the “Welcome” app and OM devs are telling me that I will be pleased with gaming on OM once I get to it. Lutris and other gaming tools are also easily reachable, but I only tried Steam so far as I am testing on a non-gaming laptop (no dGPU).
Nvidia card here and I am playing Steam games on mine. I came from Tumbleweed. We are also testing the new untested Nvidia open source kernel module. We are among the first to get our hands on this. We only have two of us testing it so far, but I am impressed with it.
OpenMandriva ROCK 6.0 will release very soon so I will check that one out as well after it releases. Why no one talks about OM I don’t know. I am surprised that it is actually good.
That kinda fits with what I said, doesn't it? If you agree with his worldviews then you can easily follow his teachings. For me ... I don't give a crap about his current political activism. Not that it's bad, it's just that he constantly addresses American citizens exclusively. That is none of my concern so I don't follow along. But his teachings on software freedom - that's the activism that I very much agree with and I will be sad if nobody will carry that torch after he is gone. Free Software is inconvenient enough that it is very easy for big tech to infiltrate our communities. They are in Linux kernel, they are in Gnome, they are in everything now to a varying degree and because they cannot infiltrate GNU they are slowly pushing it out and trying to cancel Free Software Foundation. Richard does not have infinite energy to fight alone and I have never heard of a person who is capable of replacing him.
It’s not that hard to tell Grub to boot Windows first if that’s the only thing you wish to modify regarding the boot loader. I did not check if the mentioned software is in OpenMandriva repo, but I did stumble upon this forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-why-you-should-not-use-grub-customizer/37844
@ first one installer crashed if I put home on another drive. Second one installed fine and was OK for a while but then grub broke. I think that was my fault though. Im gonna persevere.
Of course I heard German many times. I am just unable to pronounce any of it because I never had the need to even attempt. I hope this makes sense. I just felt silly if I mispronounced his name.
Been my daily driver since the Lunduke video. Nice review.
What do you do if something only has a .deb package? Manually adjust the files to fit in?
Also I would try for myself to use Cinnamon DE since I don't like KDE (I have used KDE on SteamOS on steamdeck, SteamOS is not really good for programming so I replaced with Linux Mint 22)
Also got main laptop on Linux Mint 21.3, but open to replacing the boot with OpenMandriva
@@averdadeeumaso4003 I haven't encountered something I couldn't find a .rpm or it wasn't in the repos.
@@averdadeeumaso4003 I tried Cinnamon couldn't get the "spin" I found to boot and installing it from the repos I couldn't load the DE. I prefer Cinnamon also. I imagine with this wave of interest we'll see a lot move in the coming days.
I hope you give Lunduke Journal some credit for this topic.
I messaged him a week ago and told him he made a good job on this topic.
Thanks for the video! An excellent history review, with all facts correct and IMHO all of the important details mentioned - I appreciate that very much 👍
12:30 OM is clang, don’t you say! One reason more for me to like OM, I'm very comfortable with building with clang - it's a default system compiler on FreeBSD for quite some time now.
28:07 Great that you mentioned dnf5, I was just about to ask about it: I saw it in the repo, are there any special steps to take when installing (or?) upgrading default dnf4 to 5?
Thanks one more time, very well done video - one of the best for now, kudos!
I really appreciate your comment. Especially as I worked the entire week to make it. Being testing, streaming, talking to developers, collecting facts, reporting bugs. I think this 35-minute video is the longest ever that I have created, in terms of time investment.
As for DNF5, just wait for ROCK 6 to be released and then do your ROME update. As I understand it - OM devs are timing DNF5 to be released at the same time on both.
Thabks for this. Lunduke got me onto this.
I guess he is the guilty party :)
I am happy that you liked the review!
Mandrake is where I cut my teeth on Linux. Glad to see this semi-hidden gem get attention. I will check out your other videos too, thank you!
Thank you very much for tuning in!
Seems like a really interesting distribution. Good review!
Thank you kindly! 🙏
Nice video. Interesting distro. I've never tried it, I've never even seen a review of it if I'm not mistaken.
I believe that you are correct. I also don’t recollect seeing people talking about it in years. Mainstream talk gets more clicks, I guess? I mean Arch is cool, but I can inject content diversity into this channel 🫡
Lundyke done a video about the distro Rome kde 3 days a go mentioned that it's got good review😊
When you click to download Brave you need to click the blue text (title) not the icon.
Yep, you are correct. I have already discussed this with OpenMandriva developers and they agree that it is worth improving the UI for the next new user.
@@LinuxRenaissanceI have no idea how to make Brave the default. Also, I have no idea how to set up wine properly. Otherwise, it's been great.
@HankBaxter you can change default browser in KDE plasma. For Wine 🍷 just install the Bottles app from Flathub.
I am here , after the Lunduke video as well. Having a hell of a time with the install , but hey that's the fun part. Just so you know my T480s had the same crashes as you did , so I don't think the bug is that rare. I have an older Ideapad 10th gen Intel and nVidia and it is a crash-fest. Tried to put it on a HP from 2020 with 10th gen Intel /Intel gpu and it was a mess also. Watched you video and grabbed my T480s and other than the KDE crashes during install , so far so good. I am a huge KDE fan , and my daily has been Fedora KDE spin , but would love to move to OMLx as a daily purely to support a politics and BS free distro.(edit for spelling)
I have T480 and T580 and I am currently considering which one to use as my OpenMandriva daily driver as I am moving from Arch to OM now to properly test it on my laptop, as I have two kinda primary computers: one desktop and one laptop (T480 with Arch at the moment). So a long-run test of at least half a year should make for a good verdict on how good ROME really is and how much I can help OM team to make it even better.
Thanks for watching, this means a lot to me!
Thanks mate !
You're welcome!
I love your hat, mate
Me too! :D
Great review of a rather unknown distribution.
Glad you liked it! Please share if you can 🙏
How is gaming on OpenMandriva? I'm planning to switch over. I'm currently on Fedora.
Steam installs on one click from the “Welcome” app and OM devs are telling me that I will be pleased with gaming on OM once I get to it. Lutris and other gaming tools are also easily reachable, but I only tried Steam so far as I am testing on a non-gaming laptop (no dGPU).
Nvidia card here and I am playing Steam games on mine. I came from Tumbleweed. We are also testing the new untested Nvidia open source kernel module. We are among the first to get our hands on this. We only have two of us testing it so far, but I am impressed with it.
Lundyke and you only mentioned the distro Rome no one talks about this distro
Mandrake and Suse Linux was my 1st distro in 2000😊
OpenMandriva ROCK 6.0 will release very soon so I will check that one out as well after it releases. Why no one talks about OM I don’t know. I am surprised that it is actually good.
RMS was/is the biggest activist of them all on politics and social justice.
That kinda fits with what I said, doesn't it? If you agree with his worldviews then you can easily follow his teachings. For me ... I don't give a crap about his current political activism. Not that it's bad, it's just that he constantly addresses American citizens exclusively. That is none of my concern so I don't follow along. But his teachings on software freedom - that's the activism that I very much agree with and I will be sad if nobody will carry that torch after he is gone. Free Software is inconvenient enough that it is very easy for big tech to infiltrate our communities. They are in Linux kernel, they are in Gnome, they are in everything now to a varying degree and because they cannot infiltrate GNU they are slowly pushing it out and trying to cancel Free Software Foundation. Richard does not have infinite energy to fight alone and I have never heard of a person who is capable of replacing him.
That's ok. I bet he didn't try to get people who don't share his views fired from their jobs and cancelled. The leftists even tried to cancel him.
main problem i had was the lack of packages in the repo.
I think you should tell them what's missing for you. My feeling, so far, tells me they have a tendency to listen to their users' needs.
There are a couple of new maintainers, and they are adding some packages. Just put in a request for what you need on their github issues.
Does grub customizer work on OM? To tell it to boot windows first?
It’s not that hard to tell Grub to boot Windows first if that’s the only thing you wish to modify regarding the boot loader.
I did not check if the mentioned software is in OpenMandriva repo, but I did stumble upon this forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-why-you-should-not-use-grub-customizer/37844
@LinuxRenaissance thats funny i saw that today too. All good 😅
There's no apt and no Pacman I'm a bit lost
DNF is the package manager.
Please can you show us: PCLINUXOS, Tribblix and Refracta (or EXE gnu linux). Thaaaaanks!
I will put it on my TODO :)
I tried it on 2 machines, it broke, going to try a third. I want it to work
What broke? Go to their Matrix/Telegram chat. People will give you a hand.
@ first one installer crashed if I put home on another drive. Second one installed fine and was OK for a while but then grub broke. I think that was my fault though. Im gonna persevere.
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Nice Review.
So you are Croatian, but you also never came into touch with German??? Wtf?
Of course I heard German many times. I am just unable to pronounce any of it because I never had the need to even attempt. I hope this makes sense. I just felt silly if I mispronounced his name.